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Stewed Salt Beef

A stew of sliced salt beef cooked with greens or vegetables and seasoned to taste.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Stewed Salt Beef

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the salt beef by cutting it into slices.

Stew

  1. In a stew pan, combine the beef, chopped greens or mixed vegetables, and a little water.

  2. Season to taste.

  3. Stew gently for two hours.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Salt beef
Provides the main savoury meat flavour and body of the stew.
Chopped greens or soaked desiccated mixed vegetables
Adds bulk, texture and fresh vegetable flavour to the stew.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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